Re: [PATCH 2/8] hugetlb: add allocate function for hugepagemigration

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Tue Aug 24 2010 - 21:30:38 EST


> +static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid)
> +{
> + struct page *page = __alloc_huge_page_node(h, nid);
> if (page) {
> - if (arch_prepare_hugepage(page)) {
> - __free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h));
> + set_compound_page_dtor(page, free_huge_page);
> + spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
> + h->nr_huge_pages++;
> + h->nr_huge_pages_node[nid]++;
> + spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
> + put_page_testzero(page);
> + }
> + return page;
> +}

One would expect the alloc_buddy_huge_page_node() to only differ with
alloc_buddy_huge_page() in the alloc_pages/alloc_pages_exact_node
calls. However you implement alloc_buddy_huge_page_node() in a quite
different way. Can the two functions be unified at all?

Thanks,
Fengguang
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